Horror Time

Lilly goes to the bar one night. Saddened over the loss of her longtime boyfriend, she hopes she can find comfort in being around people. While there, she meets a man that loves her smile. But she will soon discover that sometimes a smile is all that is wanted.

All Melissa's life, people have wanted to leave her who love her. But she will never have that. So when Jason says he's learned her secret, it's time Jason too never leaves her.

When Amanda disappears while jogging her favorite trail, two park rangers must choose to face the danger, or wait. Will they risk everything to try and find her? Will they die from what attacked her?

On a calm night, Sarah stumbled onto a girl needing help. Will she be able to help her, or will she become a victim herself?

Tammy and Drew have just finished cleaning out the house he grew up in. All seems done but day of the first showing Tammy gets a call from the Realtor that they missed a box. Innocently enough she picks up the box and takes it home. But what she doesn't realize is there there's a dummy in that box that is about to stake her against her husband in a game of sanity and ultimately one will die...who will it be? Tammy, Drew, or the dummy named Miley Smiles?

Chelsea loves to find new men to date. She's set her eyes on a man who lives down the way, but first she must deal with Mandy, his girlfriend.

When Annica takes in a new foster child in, she doesn't realize that this child has secrets of her own.

For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse. Sleep Over is collection of waking nightmares, a scrapbook of the haunting and poignant stories from those trapped in a world where the pillars of society are crumbling, and madness is slowly descending on a planet without rest.

Several people come across a house on a quiet road. They are immediately put on edge by the lady of the house, who does not speak and sends them to a guest bedroom. A window dominates the setting, and the view with its ever-changing landscape sends the occupants of the room into a state of fear as their lives are threatened by different dangers. They try to find a way to escape and survive the house out of time.

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? Two astronomers make first contact with another life form, forever changing both of their lives in The Andromeda Girl. In Jade, a writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious woman is. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in Rollercoaster, a ...

What would you do if you had a wish? One wish that could change your life forever. If you meet the Djinn of Just Deserts your life could change, or end depending on the choices you make. This is but one of ten tales of adventure spanning all the ages, and from the Earth to the further reaches of the Solar System. A warning though, If you ever meet the Djinn, Know wishes aren’t all that they seem.

Welcome to Curdle Creek, a place just dying to make you feel at home. Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America stuck in the past and governed by a tradition of ominous rituals. Osira is considered blessed, but her luck changes when her children flee, she comes second to last in the Running of the Widows and her father flees when his name is called in the annual Moving On ceremony.

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.

Twenty-six brand-new tales of ghosts, spirits, and the afterlife to chill even the most hardened listener to their very marrow. Grandmasters and newcomers alike serve well to petrify with stories to keep you lying awake in the dead of night - long after the last of the light has died - listening for that telltale scratching at the door, a soft whisper of disembodied voices, and the icy caress of long-dead fingers upon your ankle.

A time when the ghost that came to rest on the one-lane road in the dark evening, the ghost that hid in the backyard like a thunder light in the middle of the night, and the Yakshi that came to the window in the middle of the night and gnashed its teeth, was a time of terror across the village. At that time there was no electricity in many places in Kerala. In the darkness came many mysterious creatures. There were many stories about them. Those stories spread among the innocent people of the good countryside. Those are the stories in this book. Any Malayalee who loves nostalgia will love ...

Drug abuse. Demon worship. Governmental overreach. Child exploitation. The right kind of knowledge in the hands of the wrong kind of people. Cosmic catastrophes caused by super intellectuals meddling with closed entropic loops. The dehumanization that seems inevitable within a highly technologized society. These are vital issues with vast consequences for ourselves and our children and grand children. What will we do about these problems? How will we do it? Where, and when? Mad Paradise Publishing is proud and pleased to bring you NOWHERE STORIES, an anthology that proposes no solutions, ...

The TV ads promised a festival of cheap and bloody fright films, all of them thinly disguised knockoffs of well-known movies with much better pedigrees. One film features a family of chainsaw maniacs, another a zombie uprising. In yet another, a cult of vampires lives in a creepy old mansion. The whole thing is hosted by the mysterious Dr. Ominous.

A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead... Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Thirteen tales of paranormal horror haunt this new volume. More than enough to keep you listening on long after the sun goes down.

In a few short days, 37-year-old Emma Rossi's hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life. And they're hungry.

Bill and Rebecca Moore are an ordinary middle-aged couple raising two children in suburban Connecticut when an unsuccessful attempt on Rebecca's life by a mysterious stranger leaves her with an extreme case of post-traumatic stress. To help her recover, Bill suggests a move to southern California where they buy and renovate an old house in a posh neighborhood. It seems, however, that the house hosts a particularly persistent ghost named Ronny.